William C. Bryant Quotes - Page 2

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• A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.

  William C. Bryant

  Division, Fields, Politician

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• All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

  William C. Bryant

  Men, Poet, Great Knowledge

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• Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

  William C. Bryant

  Pain, Agony, Reign

  William Cullen Bryant, “Mutation”

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• Tender pauses speak
  The overflow of gladness,
  When words are all too weak.

  William C. Bryant

  Speak, Weak, Overflow

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• The stormy March has come at last, With winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies.

  William C. Bryant

  Clouds, Wind, Sky

  William Cullen Bryant, “March”

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• Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

  William C. Bryant

  Eloquence, Prose

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• Fairest of all that earth beholds, the hues
  That live among the clouds, and flush the air,
  Lingering, and deepening at the hour of dews.

  William C. Bryant

  Clouds, Air, Dew

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Walk At Sunset”

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• It is a sultry day; the sun has drunk
  The dew that lay upon the morning grass;
  There is no rustling in the lofty elm
  That canopies my dwelling, and its shade
  Scarce cools me. All is silent, save the faint
  And interrupted murmur of the bee,
  Settling on the sick flowers,
  And then again Instantly on the wing.

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Morning, Flower

  William Cullen Bryant, “Summer Wind”

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• To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.

  William C. Bryant

  Love, Language, Speak

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.

  William C. Bryant

  Adversity, Greatness, Rocks

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• Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild
  Mingled in harmony on Nature's face,
  Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot
  Fail not with weariness, for on their tops
  The beauty and the majesty of earth,
  Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget
  The steep and toilsome way.

  William C. Bryant

  Feet, Lovely, Mountain

  William Cullen Bryant, “Monument Mountain”

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• The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.

  William C. Bryant

  Sunshine, Bud, February

  William Cullen Bryant, “Among The Trees”

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• Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.

  William C. Bryant

  Music, Entertainment, Study

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• The sweet calm sunshine of October, now
  Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold
  The pur0ple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough
  drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.

  William C. Bryant

  Sweet, Fall, Sunshine

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• And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

  William C. Bryant

  Years, October, Sun

  William Cullen Bryant, “October”

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• The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago,
  And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;
  But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,
  And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood,
  Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men,
  And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen.

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Death Of The Flowers”

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• The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

  William C. Bryant

  Taste, Moral, Journalism

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• Follow thou thy choice.

  William C. Bryant

  Choices

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Alcayde Of Molina”

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• But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

  William C. Bryant

  Flames, Tree, Listening

  William Cullen Bryant, “Autumn Woods”

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• The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.

  William C. Bryant

  Dream, Peace, Morning

  William Cullen Bryant, “Mutation”

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• There is a Power whose care
  Teaches thy way.

  William C. Bryant

  Care, Way, Providence

  William Cullen Bryant, “To A Waterfowl”

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• Here the free spirit of mankind, at length,
  Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place
  A limit to the giant's unchained strength,
  Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?

  William C. Bryant

  Strength, Freedom, Race

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Ages”

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• Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart, And press a suit with passion, Is not a woman's part. If man come not to gather The roses where they stand, They fade among their foliage, They cannot seek his hand.

  William C. Bryant

  Passion, Heart, Men

  William Cullen Bryant, “Song From The Spanish Of Iglesias”

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• Loveliest of lovely things are they,
  On earth, that soonest pass away.
  The rose that lives its little hour
  Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

  William C. Bryant

  Love, Life, Flower

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Scene At The Banks Of The Hudson”

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• Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised?

  William C. Bryant

  Hands, Years, World

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Forest Hymn”

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